DOUGLAS, Ronald MacDonald. Stranger Come Home
DOUGLAS, Ronald MacDonald. Stranger Come Home. London: Alexander Maclehose. 1935. 8vo. pp. 320. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt at spine. Binding tight and square, a few spots to the spine, a handful to the endpapers else clean. Excellent Cyril Walter Hodges dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net) and complete, some very small nicks to corners and spine tips, some frustrating spotting to all panels, but a pleasing copy nonetheless.
A haunting book of short stories involving characters “half controlled by Fate and half controlling it”. Douglas was an interesting character; a patriot, this was published around the same time he plotted a Scottish rebellion, using his wealth to gather an impressive and still-to-this-day hidden cache of weaponry. He was approached by the Nazis who promised to help the Scottish Independence cause for information, which he rejected. He was arrested for High Treason and sentence to hang. Political rigmarole endeavoured to save him, and he went on to produce several impressive feats in literature and is fondly remembered by Scottish nationalists.
DOUGLAS, Ronald MacDonald. Stranger Come Home. London: Alexander Maclehose. 1935. 8vo. pp. 320. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt at spine. Binding tight and square, a few spots to the spine, a handful to the endpapers else clean. Excellent Cyril Walter Hodges dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net) and complete, some very small nicks to corners and spine tips, some frustrating spotting to all panels, but a pleasing copy nonetheless.
A haunting book of short stories involving characters “half controlled by Fate and half controlling it”. Douglas was an interesting character; a patriot, this was published around the same time he plotted a Scottish rebellion, using his wealth to gather an impressive and still-to-this-day hidden cache of weaponry. He was approached by the Nazis who promised to help the Scottish Independence cause for information, which he rejected. He was arrested for High Treason and sentence to hang. Political rigmarole endeavoured to save him, and he went on to produce several impressive feats in literature and is fondly remembered by Scottish nationalists.
DOUGLAS, Ronald MacDonald. Stranger Come Home. London: Alexander Maclehose. 1935. 8vo. pp. 320. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt at spine. Binding tight and square, a few spots to the spine, a handful to the endpapers else clean. Excellent Cyril Walter Hodges dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net) and complete, some very small nicks to corners and spine tips, some frustrating spotting to all panels, but a pleasing copy nonetheless.
A haunting book of short stories involving characters “half controlled by Fate and half controlling it”. Douglas was an interesting character; a patriot, this was published around the same time he plotted a Scottish rebellion, using his wealth to gather an impressive and still-to-this-day hidden cache of weaponry. He was approached by the Nazis who promised to help the Scottish Independence cause for information, which he rejected. He was arrested for High Treason and sentence to hang. Political rigmarole endeavoured to save him, and he went on to produce several impressive feats in literature and is fondly remembered by Scottish nationalists.